.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 316 159
Rank change year-on-year +87 -157 -5
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 761 392 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.86% 0.90% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.24% 4.92% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 736 333 1,330
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,501
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £70,313 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £90,125
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,232 7,962 16,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.44% 18.35% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,073 5,400 12,977
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +99 195 £55,000 +7.32% 26
North of England +28 164 £55,000 -8.33% 24
East of England +68 114 £61,250 +11.36% 11
Midlands +35 106 £55,000 -8.33% 11
London -108 92 £82,500 +3.13% 33
South West -3 86 £52,500 - 10
North West -2 69 £50,000 -16.67% 9
North East +5 64 £65,000 +33.33% 11
West Midlands +17 62 £55,000 -8.33% 6
East Midlands +17 44 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -26 31 £55,000 -8.33% 6
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.31%) IIS
3 7 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.66%) Confluence
5 4 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.39%) DNN
6 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.39%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Kentico
6 3 (0.39%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Magento
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 613 (80.55%) Azure
2 196 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (18.79%) GitHub
4 132 (17.35%) Azure AI
4 132 (17.35%) GitHub Copilot
5 124 (16.29%) AWS
6 64 (8.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 53 (6.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 42 (5.52%) Power Platform
9 40 (5.26%) SaaS
10 30 (3.94%) Serverless
11 27 (3.55%) Power Automate
11 27 (3.55%) PowerApps
12 26 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.76%) Azure Functions
16 19 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.04%) Internet
2 7 (0.92%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (58.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 371 (48.75%) MongoDB
3 147 (19.32%) Elasticsearch
4 140 (18.40%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.73%) Power BI
6 12 (1.58%) MySQL
6 12 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.45%) NonStop SQL
8 8 (1.05%) Redis
8 8 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.66%) GIS
12 4 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.39%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 40 (5.26%) Git
2 13 (1.71%) JIRA
3 7 (0.92%) GitLab
4 5 (0.66%) MSI
4 5 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.39%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.39%) NUnit
5 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.39%) Vite
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.26%) Postman
6 2 (0.26%) webpack
7 1 (0.13%) MSTest
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 113 (14.85%) Finance
2 57 (7.49%) Social Skills
3 56 (7.36%) Advertising
4 45 (5.91%) Games
5 40 (5.26%) Marketing
6 32 (4.20%) Retail
7 19 (2.50%) Banking
8 14 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.45%) Music Industry
11 9 (1.18%) Automotive
11 9 (1.18%) Law
12 8 (1.05%) Front Office
13 7 (0.92%) Legal
14 6 (0.79%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.53%) Back Office
16 4 (0.53%) Electronics
16 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 646 (84.89%) Developer
2 520 (68.33%) .NET Developer
3 101 (13.27%) Senior
4 84 (11.04%) Software Developer
5 62 (8.15%) Senior Developer
6 57 (7.49%) C# Developer
7 48 (6.31%) C# .NET Developer
8 45 (5.91%) Lead
9 42 (5.52%) Software Engineer
10 38 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (3.94%) Lead Developer
12 23 (3.02%) .NET Software Developer
12 23 (3.02%) .NET Software Engineer
13 22 (2.89%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (2.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 18 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.37%) Senior .NET Developer
16 16 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.10%) C# Software Developer
16 16 (2.10%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 761 (100.00%) .NET
2 495 (65.05%) ASP.NET
3 441 (57.95%) ASP.NET Core
4 214 (28.12%) HTML
5 211 (27.73%) CSS
6 207 (27.20%) Entity Framework
7 201 (26.41%) Blazor
8 192 (25.23%) React
9 176 (23.13%) RESTful
9 176 (23.13%) Vue
10 175 (23.00%) AngularJS
11 171 (22.47%) ASP.NET Web API
12 156 (20.50%) Node.js
13 132 (17.35%) ML.NET
14 129 (16.95%) .NET Framework
15 108 (14.19%) LINQ
16 60 (7.88%) REST
17 44 (5.78%) JSON
18 34 (4.47%) WPF
19 22 (2.89%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.43%) Greenfield Project
2 55 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.63%) Digital TV
4 17 (2.23%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.23%) iPhone
4 17 (2.23%) Mobile App
5 14 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.58%) Hedge funds
7 12 (1.58%) Social Network
8 11 (1.45%) BBC
8 11 (1.45%) Social Media
8 11 (1.45%) Sports Betting
9 8 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.92%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.23%) Android
2 16 (2.10%) Windows
3 12 (1.58%) VMS
4 3 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (67.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 397 (52.17%) Agile
3 245 (32.19%) CI/CD
4 231 (30.35%) DevOps
5 198 (26.02%) Microservices
6 156 (20.50%) AI
7 152 (19.97%) Machine Learning
8 143 (18.79%) Multithreading
9 92 (12.09%) Software Engineering
10 88 (11.56%) Scrum
11 81 (10.64%) TDD
12 79 (10.38%) OO
13 68 (8.94%) BDD
14 58 (7.62%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 58 (7.62%) Kanban
15 56 (7.36%) SDLC
16 55 (7.23%) User Experience
17 51 (6.70%) Analytics
18 49 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
19 46 (6.04%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 724 (95.14%) C#
2 532 (69.91%) SQL
3 237 (31.14%) JavaScript
4 213 (27.99%) TypeScript
5 37 (4.86%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.76%) Python
7 13 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.66%) Bicep
9 5 (0.66%) Java
10 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.39%) Bash
11 3 (0.39%) PHP
11 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.13%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) Delphi
12 1 (0.13%) F#
12 1 (0.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 45 (5.91%) Degree
2 23 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.18%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.79%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.15%) QA
2 21 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.79%) WCAG
4 5 (0.66%) NCSC
5 3 (0.39%) GDPR
5 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.26%) ITGC
6 2 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 187 (24.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 176 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 509 (66.89%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.83%) Facebook
3 41 (5.39%) Google
4 21 (2.76%) YouTube
5 19 (2.50%) Adobe
6 11 (1.45%) Apple
6 11 (1.45%) Sony
6 11 (1.45%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.53%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.53%) Workday
9 3 (0.39%) Alterian
9 3 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.39%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.39%) Splunk
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle
10 2 (0.26%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.13%) IBM
11 1 (0.13%) Reuters